The Canada Brief

Culture · 6 d ago

Shelves of books in a library

Finalists for the French-language Governor General's Literary Awards are named

Nov

12

Thursday

Governor General's Literary Awards

Winners in each of the seven categories will be announced on Nov 12.

Fiction finalists

  • Comme les éclipses, Alex Thibodeau
  • Godpèle, Gabriel Marcoux-Chabot
  • Pathologique, Sarah McNeil
  • Tout cela m'appartient, Virginie Chaloux-Gendron
  • La glace part en morceaux, Charlotte Gosselin

Five novels and story collections are in the running for fiction.

The translation finalists include Daniel Grenier's French version of a Waubgeshig Rice book and Vicky Bernard's of a Liz Howard book. Poetry, essay, theatre and two youth categories complete the list.